On Thu, 4 Dec 2003, Rob wrote:
On Thursday 04 December 2003 15:54, Patrick Shirkey
wrote:
Have you seen what's happening to the
audacity project?
http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=2572777204&
category=15199
It's got to the point where they need legal help. The guy is
making a few false statements like he has community support
and is giving money back to the developers.
I dunno, it's a tricky thing. If the guy were selling Audacity
CD's labeled as such on ebay, people would be calling for him to
be sued over trademark violations. The guy sells it under a
different name and people call for him to be sued under some
Actually no, he 100% entitled to sell CD of Audacity labled as such as
long as he provides the source code. I think the GPL makes that very
clear. But it doesn't seem like a good business plan to sell a CD of
something that can be downloaded even on a modem in a reasonable amount of
time.
-lee